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Canessa, Ercole print view role Collector Dealer/Gallery dates 1868-1929 city New York City state NY other cities Paris, France; gender M historical notes Ercole Canessa was an antiquities art collector and dealer. Canessa's collection included Gothic and Renaissance furniture, important Italian Renaissance bronze, stone & marble sculpture, primitive paintings & early wood carvings, rare Greek & Greco-Roman sculptures & pottery. His collection sold in New York via the American Art Association and Andersen Galleries in 1930. decades of activity 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 updated 02/07/2020 18:21:43 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Archive Location Collection Title Links The Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library and Archives Records of the Director's Office: Frederic Allen Whiting, 1913-1930 see details... Museum of the City of New York Photograph Collections Canessa Gallery, ca. 1915: Johston-Hewitt Studio Collection see details... «  back